Why does this show seem determined not to acknowledge "Voyager?"
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That's because VOY/FC Borg can assimilate you with a quick injection. TNG Borg can be disabled by pulling one of their cables, and even though the concept of assimilation was established in TNG it was shown as needed to be done over hours while in captivity, not via quick injection.
You're acting like you speak for TOS fans. Pretty sure almost all of us are TOS fans, on this forum, but thanks for holding on to our membership cards.
7 was not a Starfleet officer. She served on Voyager out of necessity. Expecting her to become another kind of drone, in this case some static TNG character (which doesn't seem to exist, if you look at what has happened in the story line of every TNG character shown, so far. ) you have as some idealized Platonic UFP Person. The galaxy post-Dominion War, post-Borg and post-Romulus is a very differnet place. She adapted to it in 7 fashion, finding where she is capable of doing the most good in her own way.
The kind of static show filled with mountains of backstory exposition is exactly the kind of show I would never want to see. Maybe there's enough of you true fans out there (count those membership cards) that Paramount will give it a shot.
@Christopher is absolutely qualified to speak authoritatively on matters of Canon; in fact, he's one of the only posters here who actually can do so, because he's a Star Trek creator (of licensed fiction) and is therefore obligated to understand and know Trek Canon on an intimate level.
For the vast majority of most fandoms, arguing about Canon is essentially arguing about nothing.
For the vast majority of most fandoms, arguing about Canon is essentially arguing about nothing.
do you apply some sort of solvent to your lips to be able to stand up again? I've never seen someone so enthralled with Memory-Beta, before.
Authoritatively? Really?
Everyone who watched the episodes and movies can do the same because that's all it takes to know the canon, it's not some super special skill you only learn once you write trek lit.
I'm gonna declare myself an authority on Jean-Luc canon now as well because I write Jean-Luc centric fan fic (I mean novels ARE officially licensed fan fiction if you want to really look at it) - out of my way, PIC writers, here comes the JLP Canon Police! 
Now I'm picturing a bunch of bald guys running around with this as their main hand weapon ......Out of my way, PIC writers, here comes the JLP Canon Police!
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I would be impressed if that happens.
For everyone making fun of my last comment, I refer you to the following:
Canon only matters to the creators of a given property; to everyone else, it's a meaningless and irrelevant concept*
IOW, as a writer of licensed Star Trek tie-in fiction, @Christopher is obligated to know and understand Canon on a level that your normal 'run of the mill' fan isn't, which grants him more authority on Canon subjects than your typical fan.
* Paraphrased from a comment from Lucasfilm Story Group member Matt Martin
Canon only matters to the creators of a given property; to everyone else, it's a meaningless and irrelevant concept*
IOW, as a writer of licensed Star Trek tie-in fiction, @Christopher is obligated to know and understand Canon on a level that your normal 'run of the mill' fan isn't, which grants him more authority on Canon subjects than your typical fan.
* Paraphrased from a comment from Lucasfilm Story Group member Matt Martin
At the end of the day canon's importance is proportional to its value (or perceived value) in sales figures. In the case of franchises, the very concept of a franchise is based on new works inherently bringing in an audience that is attracted to it based on its perceived connection to past hit works in said franchise, an audience that wouldn't be there if the work had no connection to old ones.
The video game series Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest are unique cases where the franchises aren't built on any sort of overall canon or continuity, as each new work is standalone. However, even this sometimes falls back on "canon" when Final Fantasy's sales figures slumped, they then relied on direct sequels or remakes (Final Fantasy 7 remake and all the FF7 works, the 2 sequels to Final Fantasy 13) to hold onto that built in audience.
I'm surprised they never addressed that with a simple throwaway line about how the Borg must have assimilated some new tech involving nano
It's been retconned that Picard was also assimilated via nanoprobes, as Jurati says in Season 1 of Picard that she studied on how Picard was assimilated and described it as happening that way.
That much is clear.
spearheaded by Jeri Ryan herself to ensure Kate Mulgrew doesn't come within 10 miles of her as revenge for her treatment on Voyager. However Kate caught on and is now ensuring that Prodigy decanonizes Picard with its ultra confusing time travel story.
Let's pile on imaginary speculation!
So, just to be clear, the argument here is that since Christopher wrote a novel (Greater than the Sum) in 2008 that referenced the Borg Queen, and no one from on-high vetoed it at the time, that gives him some authority in perpetuity to determine what should be the proper canon interpretation of the Borg Queen's role in the Collective not only over-and-above all fans who have access to the same shows, films, and peripheral materials he does, but also over-and-above the current showrunners who determine what is or is not canon in 2022?
All that tells me is that in 2008 nothing Christopher wrote about the Borg Queen was going to interfere with that grand total of nothing that was on TV or in film at the time. The next film was still over a year away, set in a different universe, and had nothing to do with the Borg. The next series wasn't until 2017. I highly doubt they were super concerned with the depiction of the Borg Queen in tie-in fiction at that time beyond not stepping on the toes of other Trek tie-in novelists. So trying to use that as an appeal to authority over all depictions of the Borg Queen in TV and film from 1996-2022 is nonsense.
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@Gov Kodos Is that really necessary to do to another poster? If this is how discussions are going to be handled, rather than each side posting their respective viewpoints, then... 
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